The article, “Unintended Pregnancy Worldwide: Trends, Levels, and Outcomes” is from the December 2010 issue of Studies in Family Planning. To download it, go to: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5F-idWfw7TeZDFhYTFkNWYtNGYwMi00ZWRiLWE4YWYtYTJhYWIxZTE1MmRl&hl=en&authkey=CLeAl-sF

Many thanks to Ross McCluney for his 2004 article, which you can download at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5F-idWfw7TeNjE4NTBlNDQtYTU0NS00Nzk0LThlNmMtYjA3OTI5YzY4YjRm&hl=en&authkey=COOTmxA

Thanks to George Taylor for this article about a talk given by the CEO of Petrobras (Brazilian oil company) in December 2009.
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Jose Sergio Gabrielli, CEO of Petrobras, gave a presentation in December 2009 in which he shows world oil capacity, including biofuels, peaking in 2010 due to oil capacity additions from new projects being unable to offset world oil decline rates.

Gabrielli states that the world needs oil volumes the equivalent of one Saudi Arabia every two years to offset future world oil decline rates.

This is a stronger statement than the one he gave in January 2009 in an interview with Business Week when he said the following.

For full article, visit:
www.theoildrum.com/node/6169

Watch Roger Martin, chair of the Optimum Population Trust, as he deftly handles an interview on BBC on population issues. The link is http://bbc.in/g1Whuz. The interview at this link lasts three minutes. You can download the full half-hour interview on HardTalk at www.ericrimmer.com. It’s a big file, so allow 10 minutes to download it. Thanks to Eric Rimmer for these links.

Thanks to Roger Martin, chair of Optimum Population Trust (now Population Matters) for the position statement adopted by Horn of Africa Civil Society Organizations on Population Growth and Climate Change. See the two-page statement at: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5F-idWfw7TeMDg2NmMwZTUtY2ZhNy00NDQ4LWJjNTMtNWY5NjVlZGJlYTlh&hl=en&authkey=CNqB36YJ

Thanks to Bob Walker for this article.
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Population Matters
Food: the Population Connection
December 8th, 2010

With the world on the verge of yet another food crisis, it’s no secret that projected population growth poses an enormous challenge to the world’s ability to satisfy the world’s growing appetite for food. All too often, however, studies assume that little or nothing can be done to affect population growth. Many experts accept, as a given, that world population, presently 6.9 billion, will rise-as projected by the U.N.’s medium variant-to between 9.1 and 9.2 billion by 2050.

For full article, visit:
http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2010/12/08/food-the-population-connection/

Many thanks to Peter Sawyer, Special Projects Coordinator of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, for this call for proposals from journalists and media practitioners. For details, see: http://pulitzercenter.org/population-reporting-travel-grant-proposal-apply

Population: Call for Proposals

The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for projects on under-reported population issues.

The Center is partnering with National Geographic and PBS NewsHour in 2011 to produce a series of reports on the topic. These travel grants will be for the production of multimedia projects to complement National Geographic magazine articles and PBS NewsHour broadcasts for placement in major newspapers, magazines, websites, and TV programs.
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On the next Your Call, we’ll rebroadcast our show about what it will take to have a substantive conversation about the growing population. There are almost 7 billion people on the planet; there could be 9 billion by 2050. What are the primary concerns with population growth? How have perceptions of population control changed? How do racism, classism, and resource inequalities factor into the controversies over population control? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb
William Ryerson, president of the Population Media Center
Martha Campbell, president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development and global health lecturer in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley

click to Listen: Why is population control so controversial?

Thanks to Joe Bish for this transcript of the talk by Paul Ehrlich at the Population Strategy Meeting on October 4, 2010.

Paul Ehrlich
Population Strategy Meeting
October 4, 2010

I want to thank Chris for starting out with a wonderful appeal for the MAHB. I think that the basic way I’d summarize the current situation is that the vast majority of people in our society don’t understand the very real things that Chris was talking about; or if they understand them, they don’t want to take action on them. I think the proof in the pudding has been very nicely demonstrated by social scientists: Simply giving people more information about the scientific state of the world does not change human behavior. After all, we’ve known forever that exponential growth can’t go on forever. Continue Reading »

Thanks to Joe Bish for this transcript of the talk by Chris Martenson at the Population Strategy Meeting on October 4, 2010. Along similar lines, you can read a late December letter by a Wall Street analyst who thinks the U.S. dollar is headed for collapse because of high debt levels.

To download the letter by Porter Stansberry, link to: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5F-idWfw7TeNWI3ZWQ0ZjQtM2I1Ny00NjY2LThiZTYtNTI5YzZkMjgzYjMw&hl=en&authkey=CJWNt7YD (No endorsement of his stock recommendations is implied).
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